I wish that casey would have been more specific with the wording of his question. Forrest plays on words to mislead. If the chest that casey is referring to is the same "chest" as in the poem, "Just take the chest and go in peace," then it isn't the treasure chest, IMO. The Forrest poem's "chest" is something completely different. If you can find the blaze, the answer to the question of distance to the chest is irrelevant. That is why he said it would be obvious.

(05-13-2016, 09:56 AM)trigace Wrote: I wish that casey would have been more specific with the wording of his question. Forrest plays on words to mislead. If the chest that casey is referring to is the same "chest" as in the poem, "Just take the chest and go in peace," then it isn't the treasure chest, IMO. The Forrest poem's "chest" is something completely different. If you can find the blaze, the answer to the question of distance to the chest is irrelevant. That is why he said it would be obvious.

(05-13-2016, 09:52 AM)liv42dy Wrote: The only thing obvious about this new information is that you will likely know the direction you will be walking from blaze to chest. The distance is another story.

Liv42dy

if you find the blaze and it is above 10,200 feet, then the direction you will be going is down

(05-13-2016, 09:56 AM)trigace Wrote: I wish that casey would have been more specific with the wording of his question. Forrest plays on words to mislead. If the chest that casey is referring to is the same "chest" as in the poem, "Just take the chest and go in peace," then it isn't the treasure chest, IMO. The Forrest poem's "chest" is something completely different. If you can find the blaze, the answer to the question of distance to the chest is irrelevant. That is why he said it would be obvious.

Trigace:

What!?
talk about misleading!

Liv42dy

I suppose that you would rather that I just tell you what the "chest" really means (in my solve of course.)

Casey, I did not take the measurement, but logic tells me that if you don’t know where the blaze is it really doesn’t matter. If you can find the blaze though, the answer to your question will be obvious. Does that help?f

So it's obvious and measurable.
If it's obvious, then look quickly down, no need to measure. That feels like something less than say 20 feet? Just trying to find any value here. Hmmmmm

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Or it's 93 million miles and obvious and no need to measure. Once you find the blaze the answer (how far away) is obvious. The next step is looking down, so where must you be logically looking to find the blaze?

(05-13-2016, 09:52 AM)liv42dy Wrote: The only thing obvious about this new information is that you will likely know the direction you will be walking from blaze to chest. The distance is another story.

Liv42dy

if you find the blaze and it is above 10,200 feet, then the direction you will be going is down

BINGO!

(05-13-2016, 10:10 AM)trigace Wrote:

(05-13-2016, 10:01 AM)liv42dy Wrote:

(05-13-2016, 09:56 AM)trigace Wrote: I wish that casey would have been more specific with the wording of his question. Forrest plays on words to mislead. If the chest that casey is referring to is the same "chest" as in the poem, "Just take the chest and go in peace," then it isn't the treasure chest, IMO. The Forrest poem's "chest" is something completely different. If you can find the blaze, the answer to the question of distance to the chest is irrelevant. That is why he said it would be obvious.

Trigace:

What!?
talk about misleading!

Liv42dy

I suppose that you would rather that I just tell you what the "chest" really means (in my solve of course.)

Not really. I suggest you keep that one to yourself and don't give up on it my friend

I knew it was over before this. Now I'm worried if I am being honest.
The final part if the solution is now no longer needed to find the chest. And it was the last bit I was missing last year which I did solve months later.
Fingers crossed I'm first to it.
This is the worst news I could have had this close.